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Quintium wrote:

New Sindo wrote:I never knew babies were made that way.

Me neither, and I'm still not completely convinced. I'll start a reproduction-skeptic movement.
Perhaps sex and having babies is just a correlation.

Indeed! I've heard of many people who have had sex and not had a baby!

Correlation does not imply causation!

Lets start up a web campaign.

I would definitely go for option one: More time for gaming and reading.

As Priority Peter would say: "There will be no sex, until I solve for X."

Benomia wrote:And do you know how much children cost these days?

No, I've never bought one...

Dyakovo wrote:

Benomia wrote:And do you know how much children cost these days?

No, I've never bought one...

Depends on how many officials you need to bribe.

Apparently, one hospital in the Middle East sold them for $500 each.
That's what I'm going with, then.

The High Godliness Of The Black Hole wrote:

Quintium wrote:
Me neither, and I'm still not completely convinced. I'll start a reproduction-skeptic movement.
Perhaps sex and having babies is just a correlation.

Indeed! I've heard of many people who have had sex and not had a baby!

Correlation does not imply causation!

Lets start up a web campaign.

Gold.

Dyakovo wrote:

Benomia wrote:And do you know how much children cost these days?

No, I've never bought one...

Silver.

Quintium wrote:Apparently, one hospital in the Middle East sold them for $500 each.
That's what I'm going with, then.

And that's just initial cost! That's not taking into acount the upkeep required.
It's like...
A Bugatti Veyron costs $2,000,000, but after ten years you've spent $10,000,000 on it.

Benomia wrote:And that's just initial cost! That's not taking into acount the upkeep required.
It's like...
A Bugatti Veyron costs $2,000,000, but after ten years you've spent $10,000,000 on it.

And after ten years, you have an ugly disappointment, since you can only brag to your friends about it for a few weeks until it gets old.
Well, at least a Bugatti Veyron doesn't date the wrong type of people, get drunk, get arrested or drops out of high school.

Quintium wrote:

Benomia wrote:And that's just initial cost! That's not taking into acount the upkeep required.
It's like...
A Bugatti Veyron costs $2,000,000, but after ten years you've spent $10,000,000 on it.

And after ten years, you have an ugly disappointment, since you can only brag to your friends about it for a few weeks until it gets old.
Well, at least a Bugatti Veyron doesn't date the wrong type of people, get drunk, get arrested or drops out of high school.

And when riding a Bugatti you can have some fun...

I don't think you could have fun riding your children. I think you would get arrested.

Benomia wrote:

Quintium wrote:
And after ten years, you have an ugly disappointment, since you can only brag to your friends about it for a few weeks until it gets old.
Well, at least a Bugatti Veyron doesn't date the wrong type of people, get drunk, get arrested or drops out of high school.

And when riding a Bugatti you can have some fun...

I don't think you could have fun riding your children. I think you would get arrested.

You are supposed to let your children ride you. Either horsey or piggy back.

Raeyh wrote:

Benomia wrote:And when riding a Bugatti you can have some fun...

I don't think you could have fun riding your children. I think you would get arrested.

You are supposed to let your children ride you. Either horsey or piggy back.

Why would I want to do that?

The difference between a Bugatti Veyron and a pile of dead children is that I don't have a Bugatti Veyron in my garage.

Benomia wrote:

Raeyh wrote:
You are supposed to let your children ride you. Either horsey or piggy back.

Why would I want to do that?

It's fun.

Benomia wrote:

Raeyh wrote:
You are supposed to let your children ride you. Either horsey or piggy back.

Why would I want to do that?

Dunno if someone asked that yet, but ... how old are you?

Quintium wrote:The difference between a Bugatti Veyron and a pile of dead children is that I don't have a Bugatti Veyron in my garage.

You can't drive corpses.

Raeyh wrote:It's fun.

That's not fun, that's in invasion of personal space.
Bugatti, that's fun.

Benomia wrote:That's not fun, that's in invasion of personal space.
Bugatti, that's fun.

I don't see how being flung around at high speeds is more fun than pretending to be horse for a giggling child. At least I would still move under my own volition instead of being at the mercy of a machine.

Benomia wrote:You can't drive corpses.

Believe me - I've been on the internet long enough to know that some people can, and do.
It's not very appealing, though - I'd prefer a Rolls-Royce or a Jaguar.

Quintium wrote:

Benomia wrote:You can't drive corpses.

Believe me - I've been on the internet long enough to know that some people can, and do.
It's not very appealing, though - I'd prefer a Rolls-Royce or a Jaguar.

In case you are confused, a meat wagon isn't literally a wagon made of corpses.

Raeyh wrote:In case you are confused, a meat wagon isn't literally a wagon made of corpses.

'Ride' does not necessarily mean 'sit in and drive with'.
Found that out the hard way.

Raeyh wrote:

Quintium wrote:
Believe me - I've been on the internet long enough to know that some people can, and do.
It's not very appealing, though - I'd prefer a Rolls-Royce or a Jaguar.

In case you are confused, a meat wagon isn't literally a wagon made of corpses.

Sometimes it is.

A friend of mine lived fast and loose, and then, to his shock, at age 30 found
"the One", somebody his cynical heart didn't think existed, his real true love!

He cried on my shoulder. "I want to give her all that I am, but I've already given too much of it away. She deserves better. Maybe it's too late, I am not complete enough for her, I spread myself so thin....Maybe I should just set her free, to find someone more worthy."

True story, I swear.

Pope Joan wrote:A friend of mine lived fast and loose, and then, to his shock, at age 30 found
"the One", somebody his cynical heart didn't think existed, his real true love!

He cried on my shoulder. "I want to give her all that I am, but I've already given too much of it away. She deserves better. Maybe it's too late, I am not complete enough for her, I spread myself so thin....Maybe I should just set her free, to find someone more worthy."

True story, I swear.

Was your friend played by Neil Patrick Harris?

Raeyh wrote:

Benomia wrote:That's not fun, that's in invasion of personal space.
Bugatti, that's fun.

I don't see how being flung around at high speeds is more fun than pretending to be horse for a giggling child. At least I would still move under my own volition instead of being at the mercy of a machine.

This is getting worse and worse.
Pretending to be a horse should be left to the actual horses.

Benomia wrote:This is getting worse and worse.
Pretending to be a horse should be left to the actual horses.

Yeah. They've already been replaced in the army, in most police forces around the world and in transport.
What do they have left? Just that - don't take it away from them.

Benomia wrote:

Raeyh wrote:
I don't see how being flung around at high speeds is more fun than pretending to be horse for a giggling child. At least I would still move under my own volition instead of being at the mercy of a machine.

This is getting worse and worse.
Pretending to be a horse should be left to the actual horses.

Most people don't own a horse for their child to play with. Plus you don't get child-parent bonding that way.